Default Settings In Digital Signature

I've got the digital signature set up with everything I need including an image of my scanned ink signature. No problem. However, 99.99% of the things I sign are of the "I am approving this document" reason. However, the "reason" field comes up blank every time I go to use the digital signature. I realize that it is a small thing to click on the REASON tab, scroll down, and select the "...approving..." line, but if there was a way to have it come up as the default it would save a bit of time. When you do a couple of hundred signatures a week, anything that makes it faster is a great help.
I migrated to Acrobat 9 from Acrobat 6, and I know in Acrobat 6 whatever you used the LAST time for reason came up as the default when you went to use the signature tool again, so I know at least at that time it was possible to make that setting. Perhaps they carved that feature out of the signature routine somewhere along the line.
Thanks,
Jim

You can do it by trashing preferences:
http://www.digitalrebellion.com/pref_man.htm

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Hello SDN Folks
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Hi Tushar,
Your requirement of utilizing 3 different approvers for a single 'Release' status in a document type/s can be addressed via the approach proposed below:
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Hello,
I am trying to determine what options are available natively in Acrobat for restricting the type of certificate that is used for applying a digital signature. As far as I can tell, Acrobat, by default, seems to allow the use of any certificate which has the "Digital Signature" extension. This has the potential to create large problems in a regulated environment.
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Hi Mike,
The short answer is yes, you can restrict signing to a certain type of certificate. However, you do need to be able to edit each PDF file that needs to be signed.
To expand a bit, the process is know as applying a Seed Value. There are two different types of PDF files and they each have a different method of applying Seed Values. If the PDF is an XML template that was created using LiveCycle Designer, then you can apply the Seed Value to the signature field using the Designer software. On the other hand, if the PDF file is the more ubiquitous AcroForm (e.g. you converted a Word Doc to PDF), then you have to use JavaScript to apply the Seed Value.
Before I get into the specifies of applying a Seed Value, first here is what a Seed Value can do. Among other things, you can use Seed Value to restrict signing to:
a specific user's digital ID
digital IDs issued by a specific CA
a digital ID that has a specific key usage value (it sounds like this is what you are looking for)
If you need to use JavaScript you are doing to want to review the published JavaScript guide. You can find the guide online at http://livedocs.adobe.com/acrobat_sdk/9.1/Acrobat9_1_HTMLHelp/wwhelp/wwhimpl/js/html/wwhel p.htm?href=JS_API_AcroJSPreface.87.1.html#1515775&accessible=true and search search for Seed Value. More specifically, you are looking for the JavaScript call signatureSetSeedValue and the section (about half way down the page) CertificateSpecifier Object. At the bottom of the page are examples of how to set the certspec object.
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@George Johnson:
I tried to edit and save the form from within Acrobat Standard X, but it didn't seem to make any difference.
@brogers_1:
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There is no signature field in the document--unless it is somehow hidden.
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Outlook 2013 won't auto-save emails if encryption or digital signature is enabled.

In Outlook 2013, I recently noticed that although I have Autosave enabled, I never get drafts autosaved. The option is located in File > Options > Mail > "Save Messages" section > "[ ] Automatically save items that have not been
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I just tested on my Outlook 2013 and experienced exactly the same.
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Hi Madam Curie,
Part of the problem is the phraseology is incorrect so I'll start with some basic so we are all speaking the same language.
One thing to realize is you can digitally sign any piece of electronic data just like you can use you pen to sign any physical object such as a piece of paper, some one's cast, a wall, or you photo for your fans. In the electronic world you can sign your e-mail, your Word document, or as far as I'm concerned (realizing that I'm biased ) the most important thin, a PDF file.
A digital ID in the electronic world is analogous to a pen in the physical world. It is what you use to create a digital signature. A digital ID is comprised of three pieces; a public key, a corresponding private key, and a block of text with some identifying information. When the digital IS is initially created the public-key is signed with a private key. If the public key is signed with it's corresponding private key the digital ID is know as a "self-signed" digital ID. If it is signed by a different private key, the owner of that key becomes the issuer of the digital ID that it signs.
A digital signature in the electronic world is analogous to a wet ink signature. You use a digital ID to create a digital signature.
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The visual appearance is comprised of three things, a background (which by default is the PDF trefoil logo) and a foreground that is divided into two halves, text and a graphic.
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I pasted below the help file info from SPRO on digitial signatures. This gives you a good overview. You can find more info on this by searching help for information on SSF Settings for the System Signature. SSF = Secure Store and Forward and you will help files on this as well. These areas are set up by BASIS folks, not QM. You may want to inquire in a BASIS forum for more specific info on setting this up.
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The basis application component Secure Store and Forward (SSF) is used to realize digital signatures in the SAP System. This section tells you how to make the following settings:
SSF settings for the digital signature
Which settings you make here depends on the signature method you use (see Specify Signature Method for Approval Using Simple Signature and Define Signature Strategies)
The complete names of the users that are supposed to execute the signatures as well as their personal time zones
When a signature is executed, the system copies the signatory name together with the local time according to the signatory's personal time zone to the signed document.
Caution
All users can maintain their address data and defaults by choosing System -> User profile -> Own data. The general user settings along with the SSF settings for the user are part of this data. Therefore if you use digital signatures, do not assign the authorization to maintain own data to all users.
Requirements
If you use the user signature as your signature method, you need an external security product that islinked to your SAP System by way of SSF.
Note that you should not store the users' Personal Security Environment (PSE) in a file system but rather, for example, on a smart card. The PSE software does not comply with legal requirements for digital signatures.
Standard settings
The SSF settings for the system signature are contained in the standard system.
Activities
SSF Settings for the User Signature
1. Go to Customizing for Basis Components, choose System Administration -> Digital Signature and carry out activity Application-Dependent Parameters for SSF Functions.
2. Enter the SSF information for the users that are supposed to execute digital signatures. If you want, you can also make the general user settings now (see below).
a) Go to user maintenance.
b) Enter the user ID of the user whose data you want to maintain and choose Change.
c) Go to the Address tab page.
d) Choose Other communication and double-click SSF (Secure Store & Forw.).
e) Enter the user's SSF information.
How the entries must be structured depends on the security product you use.
f) Choose Continue and save your entries.
SSF Settings for the System Signature
Check and, if required, maintain the standard settings. To do so, go to Customizing for Basis Components, choose System Administration -> Digital Signature and carry out the following activities:
Application-Dependent Parameters for SSF Functions
SAPSECULIB Maintenance Information
General User Settings
1. Go to user maintenance.
2. Enter the user ID of the user whose data you want to maintain and choose Change.
3. Go to the Address tab page and enter the user's first and last names.
4. Go to the Defaults tab page and enter the user's personal time zone.
5. Save your entries.

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Hi,
As far as I know, it is not recommended to disable digital signature check.
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https://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/sqlserver/en-US/home
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Excel 2013 crash - related to digital signature?

This is a cross-posting of a thread originally started in Microsoft Answers (Office- Excel) forum, advised to post in this forum by MS support engineer Mohan Suryanarayan (link to other forum: here).
I have a VB macro in file A (which otherwise contains only several Excel Tables with named ranges). My digital signature (for signing code) is attached to file A.
As the macro executes, the Open file dialog is called up so that the User can select a secondary file to open (file B or C).
Files B and C contain several sheets with formulas and Excel Tables, and also their own extensive VB macros. My digital signature is also attached to files B & C.
The remainder of the macro in file A simply executes an update of the Excel Tables in the secondary file, before saving & closing it.
I have been finding that during execution of the file A macro, Excel crashes and closes all open Excel files.
If I remove the digital signature from the secondary files then the macro in file A executes with no problem.
The macro was written in Excel 2007 and on a different laptop, with different digital signature, and used to have no problem at all. When a new laptop was purchased a new digital signature was obtained and placed into all of the files.
Execution of file A is a critical process - I need help with stopping the crash, while maintaining a digital signature in the secondary files (so that their own macros can execute).
Event Viewer error shows the following:
Faulting application name: EXCEL.EXE, version: 15.0.4667.1000, time stamp: 0x543d366c
Faulting module name: mso.dll, version: 0.0.0.0, time stamp: 0x5447696f
Exception code: 0xc0000602
Fault offset: 0x011aafdd
Faulting process id: 0x2d58
Faulting application start time: 0x01d01e17eafcd0bb
Faulting application path: C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office 15\root\office15\EXCEL.EXE
Faulting module path: C:\Program Files (x86)\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\Office15\mso.dll
JL Latham replied:
Tom, all I can give you is relatively non-information. I haven't experienced that type of behavior even in Excel 2013 with digitally signed macros in multiple workbooks. But my digital signature is a commercial one from DigiCert, not
self-cert. I'm not even sure what piece of Excel or Office processes the digital signature (that is, whether it is mso.dll or not). But your whole process has more moving parts than most of mine involving multiple workbooks do - I quite often turn
off .EnableEvents when doing things like that just so event driven macros in the other workbook(s) do not execute.
Do the macros in the 'B files' have to execute during all of this processing in file A? If not, have you tried turning interrupts off:
Application.EnableEvents = False
before starting to work with the B-files? Maybe something in them, such as a Worksheet_Change() or other event triggered process is messing things up?
If you do use Application.EnableEvents=False, remember that you MUST re-enable that later in the code with Application.EnableEvents=True to get responses to things like button clicks, changes in a worksheet or other event driven processes
to run 'normally' again.
Have you looked at this discussion:
http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/office/forum/office_2013_release-excel/excel-2013-crashing-immediately-when-attempting-to/ea2ab100-5525-4a0d-a3cf-6977319f954f
Sounds very similar to yours - original signature created in 2007, and crashing in 2013. Some suggestions were made, but whether they fixed the issue or not is unknown: OP never came back and said "fixed it" or "didn't fix it".
I replied:
In answer, the secondary B files don't execute any part of their macros during the A file process, and I hadn't included an EnableEvents = False within the file A code. However, I have just tried it to check if it made any difference and unfortunately it didn't.
I had read the thread you gave a link to before posting, and also the sub threads given within that one, but didn't see anything I thought of immediate parallel other than an Excel 2013 crash.
The way I read the linked thread was that a User added a signature in Excel 2007 and when they tried to open the file Excel (2007?) crashes, although other people using Excel 2013 can open it (not clear whether it means others can open the one with
the 2007 signature or without it).
Anyway, the differences in my situation are that:
(1) my B-files were originally created in Excel 2007 on a different laptop to current and had their own signature attached. I maintain a 'stock' of B-file versions, some of which have the old signature and some the new. If I run the A-file macro
on one of the B-files with the old signature then it executes ok;
(2) I am able to open the B-files ok, no matter whether the signature in them derives from the old laptop with Excel 2007 or the new laptop with Excel 2013;
(3) the macros within the B-files execute ok (this includes any versions of the B-files which still have an old signature attached, by removing the old signature and replacing with the new and executing on the new laptop);
(4) the offending operation which triggers the crash (when the B-files have the new signature attached) is a Resize of the Excel Tables within the B-file. I understand that I may eventually have to find a workaround for this operation but initially
I want to sort out the signature issue (I'm reasonably sure the signature issue is not a red herring where the Resize is the 'real' problem).
Regards, Tom

Hi,
According to your description, this issue occurred with some particular files that stored in SharePoint site. Did the user download the file to local disk to print?
Based on the event log >>Faulting module name: EXCEL.EXE<<, it does not show the root Faulting module. Thus, please try to follow this KB to do general troubleshooting:
https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/kb/2758592
Then, if you have used "printer status application", please go to Device settings -> Installable options -> Printer Status notification and select disable.
If this issue still exists, we may need to collect the App crash dump file:
https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/dd996900.aspx
You can try to analyze dump by yourself if you would like to：
How to analyze app crash dump file:
http://blogs.technet.com/b/askperf/archive/2007/05/29/basic-debugging-of-an-application-crash.aspx
Regards,
George Zhao
TechNet Community Support
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